At 0.434 posts per day ...

Maybe one of the board's statisticians could determine this -- I sure as hell don't have the time -- but I suspect it's taken me longer than anybody to hit 500 posts.

My registration date shows April 19, 2003, but I was reading the board well before that, back in the days when it gleefully ripped some of my co-workers by name. (Oh, how I miss Anon 3:24 ... well, not really.)

This note is less a celebration of my dubious achievement than a "thank you" to those of you who provide my daily dose of entertainment and breaking news (I know I've heard many things first from this site -- nice to hang out with 5,000 people who have access to the wires).

This is also where I stay connected to the newsroom world I left behind two years ago -- and might someday soon want to rejoin.
So, thanks, y'all. And my beer of choice is Shiner Bock.

Some people will get down on you for celebrating posts. Not me. I say congrats. And while it ain't the number but the quality of the posts that matters, it's still nice to hit that milestone just the same.